Bulldozers Used To Bury The Dead |
 On two occasions a bulldozer, operated by members of the British Army, was used to push badly decomposed bodies into mass graves. Source: Imperial War Museum |
"It became difficult to bury the dead, the thousands of dead. So a bulldozer was brought in, to bulldoze the dead into a huge pit and the blade sometimes didn't catch the bodies cleanly and they split open. And the smell was terrible. I soaked a handkerchief in petrol and put it over my mouth as I sat in front of the bulldozer and I couldn't stand the smell of petrol. I didn't know whether to try to bear the smell of petrol or take it off and stand the smell of death." Mike Lewis, Army Film & Photographic Unit cameraman during liberation of Bergen-Belsen |
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